Sunday 2nd Sept. Usk valley run

[Chris Barrable]

Me, Dave V, John P, Mike & Denise met 9am chepstow petrol station. Glorious sunshine. UCRs mostly wiyh a pub stop at 1130am! Thogh only coffee!! And so on up to & past the golf course a many mile single track with a nice shallow stream bed. On to Usk for petrol then a few lanes including a lovely overgrown fern strewn downhill with the autumn colours just coming through & on to a late lunch (2pm) at the Steel Horse cafe for a Welsh Breakfast !
Denise and Mike dipped out & headed home on roads leaving les trois amies to continue. Doing the hard bit in reverse (not backwards, er going forward!) Back past the golfers to refuel again at Usk. Then a simple lane & small roads back to chepstow. We then went for a pint of Thatchers at the Boars Head in Aust.

That was about 80m in 10hrs. My heart monitor reckons 1100 calories.

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[Ian Abram]

Me, Dave V, John P, Mike & Denise met 9am chepstow petrol station. Glorious sunshine. UCRs mostly wiyh a pub stop at 1130am! Thogh only coffee!! And so on up to & past the golf course a many mile single track with a nice shallow stream bed. On to Usk for petrol then a few lanes including a lovely overgrown fern strewn downhill with the autumn colours just coming through & on to a late lunch (2pm) at the Steel Horse cafe for a Welsh Breakfast !
Denise and Mike dipped out & headed home on roads leaving les trois amies to continue. Doing the hard bit in reverse (not backwards, er going forward!) Back past the golfers to refuel again at Usk. Then a simple lane & small roads back to chepstow. We then went for a pint of Thatchers at the Boars Head in Aust.

That was about 80m in 10hrs. My heart monitor reckons 1100 calories.

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sweet
did you have a pudding?

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[John Presland]

A enjoyable day out with good company....

[David Vaughan]

Fabulous day with warm temperature into the evening. Great trails and company!
Wasp on my sleeve stung my wrist repeatedly on the tarmac ride to Chepstow until I squished it.
Wasp dead....wrist very red and puffed up.

[Mike Wain]

Chris, mega thanks from us both for putting this run on. I may be getting that disease where you can't remember anything 'cos I didn't recognise a single trail the whole day! Anyway, Denise really enjoyed it and her crumbling spine has survived all the crashes with no pain the next day so she's looking forward to her next outing. Agree the fern downhill into the view lane was really good, also the one where we were going through all the tall flowers, really strong scent once a few people had been through! After leaving you we had a really nice ride back on little black lanes via Raglan.
Here's a couple of pics I took of the only 2 successful riders over the first obstacle of the day!

[Chris Barrable]

Glad you both enjoyed my new version of my chepstow to Abergavenny ride. This was a figure of eight version instead of killer to lunch then easier return. So we did some great stuff after Steel Horse cafe stop . Enjoy Trev s 150 miler!

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[John Presland]